Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ficus microcarpa, also known as Chinese banyan, small-fruited fig, Malayan banyan, Indian laurel, or curtain fig, [6] is a species of banyan tree in the family Moraceae.Its native range is from India to China and Japan, through Southeast Asia and the western Pacific to the state of Queensland in Australia, and it has been introduced to parts of the Americas and the Mediterranean.
[3] [1] Some common names in English include rosewood, Bombay blackwood, roseta rosewood, East Indian rosewood, reddish-brown rosewood, Indian palisandre, and Java palisandre. [3] [1] Its Indian common names are beete, and satisal or sitsal. [3] The tree grows to 40 metres (130 ft) in height and is evergreen, but locally deciduous in drier ...
The wood is used for furniture, cabinetwork, joinery, paneling, specialty items, boat-building, railroad cross-ties (treated), decorative veneers and for musical instruments (e.g. for guitar fretboard). The leaves are used as food by Antheraea paphia which produce the tassar silk , a form of commercially important wild silk.
The Satwiwa Native American Indian Culture Center in Newbury Park, California is located within the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The area was purchased by the U.S. National Park Service in 1980. [20] The Rosewood Trail near Stagecoach Inn, which leads to Angel Vista is an access point in Newbury Park.
Himalayan Elm, Indian Elm Ulmus wallichiana: Red 960 kg/m 3: 1,620 lb/cu yd Throughout India ... Rosewood: Dalbergia latifolia: Dark [1] 850 kg/m 3: 1,430 lb/cu yd [12]
Rosewood is any of a number of richly hued hardwoods, often brownish with darker veining, but found in other colours. [1] It is hard, tough, strong, and dense. True rosewoods come from trees of the genus Dalbergia, but other woods are often called rosewood.
Ficus americana, commonly known as the West Indian laurel fig [4] or Jamaican cherry fig, [5] is a tree in the family Moraceae which is native to the Caribbean, Mexico in the north, through Central and South America south to southern Brazil. It is an introduced species in Florida, USA.
Tonewood refers to specific wood varieties used for woodwind or acoustic stringed instruments. The word implies that certain species exhibit qualities that enhance acoustic properties of the instruments, but other properties of the wood such as aesthetics and availability have always been considered in the selection of wood for musical instruments.